Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptians, as their ancient reliefs attest, valued the brave and loyal, but somewhat obstinate dachshund.* Last week, near Semmering, famed Austrian winter sports centre, Printz, the pet dachshund of Count Bela Széchényi, upheld the tradition of his breed...
...Court of Appeals of Maryland sat last week to consider the case of three Hearstling editors and two Hearstling photographers, sentenced last summer by a Baltimore judge for taking and publishing pictures of Murderer Richard Whittemore against the express order of the court. The Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the Baltimore Judge (Eugene O'Dunne). The Hearstlings had pleaded that they placed their duty to their newspapers and to their public ("People who think") above the orders of the court. Judge O'Dunne had said, in passing sentence: "As the dignified affairs of the legal forum were shifted...
...effect in July, which increase the penalties on various types of crimes. The most important provision is that which sentences a man to life imprisonment upon his fourth or subsequent conviction for a minor felony. This particular statute has been the subject of heated legal debate and was "finally upheld by the New York Supreme Court last month. No doubt, it has made habitual criminals think twice before committing that fourth felony. Crime was reduced in New York in 1926 for this and other reasons (migration of thugs, more alert police forces...
Straightway the Rationist (Atheist) Society of Canada, Inc. announced that its entire resources would be expended, if neceessary, on the defense of Mr. Sterry. Only twice in Canadian history has a blasphemy charge of this nature been upheld...
...question under discussion was, "Resolved: That there is more to be feared than hoped for from science." L. F. Davis, B. T. Whitehouse and Ralph Blagden, representing Bates, upheld the negative. F. W. Lorenzen '28, C. E. Wyzanski Jr. '27, and E. M. Rowe '27 represented Harvard...